24 Feb 2018
Francesca Merritt
I write to share the sad news that Francesca Merritt, our former IALS Treasurer, passed away on 17 February. She had been struggling with illness for a number of years, and it seems that her health further deteriorated in the last two months. She is survived by her daughter and son, Fiona and Richard.
Francesca had been involved with the IALS since 1989 when she provided accommodation for Ladakhi participants who had come to the UK for the 4th IALS conference in Bristol. She had remained closely associated with the association ever since, and served as Treasurer and Membership Secretary from 1997 to 2009. The last conference she attended was in Heidelberg in 2013, as seen in this picture. We will all remember her with gratitude for her warmth, hospitality and practical assistance over so many years.
I'll write a longer note of appreciation for Stawa and Ladakh Studies. Meanwhile, please do share any photographs or personal reminiscences that I might include.
John Bray
22 Jan 2018
Paper Call: 'Images of India' International Workshop, March 2018 at JNU
Please find webpage and paper call for what promises to be a very exciting and instructive workshop examining the various ways that India is represented visually, and the way that images influence people's perceptions of what and who India is culturally and politically.
'Images of India' will be held at Jawaharlal Nehru University at Delhi from 19th to 21st March 2018. It is being hosted by the student association Association des Jeunes Etudes Indiennes (AJEI), in collaboration with the French institutions University of Strasbourg, CNRS, and SAGE.
The workshop is an excellent forum for some of our early career scholars to present their work, and students are particularly encouraged to apply. The deadline for the paper call is Saturday, 10th February 2018.
For further information, please contact Salome Deboos: deboos@unistra.fr.
http://ethnologie.unistra.fr/actualites/actualite/article/call-for-paper-international-workshop-ajei/
22 Oct 2017
An Eighteenth Century Italian Missionary in Ladakh
I’m just back from Italy where I took part
in a conference on Ippolito Desideri (1684-1734), a Jesuit priest who travelled
through Ladakh on his way to Lhasa in 1715.
The conference took place in Pistoia,
Desideri’s home town, which is in Tuscany, close to Florence. The photograph shows the town as seen from
the bell tower next to its cathedral.
Here is a link to
the conference programme:
The convenor was Enzo Gualtiero Bargiacchi,
who is also from Pistoia. The image here shows Enzo at the opening
session with the mayor of Pistoia, Alessandro Tomasi, on his left; and Maria
Stella Rasetti, the director of Biblioteca San Giorgo on his right. Enzo worked
tremendously hard to arrange the conference, and I hope that he is delighted
with the success of a long-held ambition.
Desideri was a voluminous writer in both
Italian and Tibetan. His Italian writings have recently been translated into
English by Michael Sweet and Leonard Zwilling. See: http://www.wisdompubs.org/book/mission-tibet/praise. Even more recently, Donald Lopez and Thupten
Jinpa have published extracts from Desideri’s Tibetan works: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674659704
.
Donald Lopez (shown here) spoke about the translation at
the conference, and Michael Sweet and Leonard Zwilling sent video presentations
with new information about Desideri’s Tibetan adventures drawing on a hitherto
unexamined text – his account book.
Other
Italian and international scholars spoke about Desideri’s Jesuit
background, his geographical discoveries, and his engagement with Buddhism. My
own contribution was a discussion of his journey through Ladakh where he had
his first encounter with Tibetan Buddhism, but depended heavily on assistance
from Kashmiri Muslim guides.
The conference proceedings will be
published in the Buddhist-Christian
Studies journal from the University of Hawaii in 2018.
John Bray
17 Sept 2017
Spiti conference proceedings
Last year the first international conference on Spiti took place at Oxford University. The proceedings ofthe conference have now been published online, and they are available online by the Revue d’Études Tibétaines:
http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/journals/ret/index.php?selection=0
There is an obvious overlap between Ladakh Studies and Spiti studies, and several of the contributors are IALS members.
I congratulate the editors, Yannick Laurent and David Pritzker, and - now as in the past - I hope that there will be many opportunities for inter-regional cooperation and exchange.
John Bray
27 Jul 2017
IALS Workshop at the Central Institute of Buddhist Studies, 21-23 August 2017
This is to announce the next IALS workshop on "Research in Ladakh" will be held at CIBS from 21-23 August from 2:30 to 4:30 pm. If any senior members of IALS are in Ladakh or expected to be in Ladakh around that time and wish to share research methodology related knowledge to help the research students, students of Shastri, Acharya and final year of graduation, please let me know so that I can prepare the programme accordingly. My email sonamleh2@gmail.com Thanks
Sonam Wangchok
Sonam Wangchok
2 Jun 2017
Ladakh (including Kargil) and other borderlands
In recent years there has been wide ranging
academic discussion about the significance of borderlands in South and South-east
Asia. Here are two pieces of news that
may be of interest to Ladakh scholars.
The first concerns a 2013 publication:
David N. Gellner
(ed.). Borderland Lives in Northern South
Asia. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
This is an edited collection which includes
a chapter by IALS member Radhika Gupta on “Allegiance and Alienation: Border
Dynamics in Kargil”.
Other chapters look at Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Nepal,
Bhutan, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and West Bengal.
The entire book is now available online,
and is free to download. See:
Secondly, the Asian Borderlands Research
Network is organising a conference in Kyrgyzstan in August 2018. The theme is “Ruins,
Revivals and Resources”, and the organisers pose the question:
How are
borderlands in Asia creating alternative spaces for heritages, self-definition
and the extraction of resources? How can these cases serve to rethink social
theories of various kinds?
They have issued a call for panels and
papers by a deadline of October 2017. For more details see: www.asianborderlands.net.
John Bray
20 May 2017
Heinrich August Jäschke: 200th anniversary
The year 2017 marks the second birth
centenary of Heinrich August Jäschke, whose Tibetan-English
Dictionary (1881) is still widely used to this day. This is an anniversary that ought to be noted
by all Tibetanists and devotees of Ladakh Studies.
H.A. Jäschke (Bechler 1930: 65) |
Jäschke was born on 17 May 1817 in
Herrnhut, the headquarters of the Moravian Church, which is better known in Germany as
the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. His surname indicates his descent from Protestant
refugees who had migrated from Moravia, now part of the Czech Republic, a
century earlier. Jäschke was a child of the Moravian church, which is known for
its wide-ranging missionary activity, through and through.
Jäschke spent the first part of his adult
life as a teacher of Latin and Greek at the Moravian school (Pädagogium) in Niesky, some 25 miles north
of Herrnhut. However, in 1856, when he was already in his late 30s, he was
called to a new post as Superintendent of a new Moravian mission in Kyelang,
northern India. Kyelang lies in Lahul, on what used to be an important trade
and pilgrimage route between India and Tibet. Jäschke was selected for his
linguistic skills and, from the outset, one of his main tasks was to be the
translation of the Christian scriptures into Tibetan.
He spent the summer of 1857 in Stok, near
Leh in Ladakh, totally immersed in his linguistic studies. His host was Sonam
Stobgyas, a former monk from Hemis monastery who later became one of the first
Ladakhi Christian converts. Jäschke then spent the next 11 years in Kyelang,
apart from an extended stay in Darjeeling in 1865, before returning to Germany
in 1868.
Although Jäschke’s own travels were
limited, he took every opportunity to engage with travellers from all parts of
the wider Himalayan region and Tibet. Among many others, these included Lobsang
Chospel (bLo bzang chos ’phel), a monk trained in Central Tibet who stayed in
Kyelang from 1865 to 1868.
At the same time he studied a wide variety
of written texts. These included: the 'Dzangs blun, a collection of legends of Buddha; the Vaiḍūrya dkar po, an astrological and astronomical work compiled by Desi Sangye
Gyatso (sDe srid Sangs rgyas rgya mtsho, 1653-1705); a version of the La dvags rgyal rabs (the Ladakhi royal chronicle); and the
biography and songs of the famous Tibetan Buddhist master Milarepa.
The Kyelang mission house in the 19th century (with thanks to Hugh Rayner) |
In Kyelang, Jäschke produced a range of
school books, evangelistic texts, draft Bible translations and a Romanized and English Tibetan Dictionary,
all of which were copied out by hand, and published on the mission’s
lithographic press. Back in Germany, he worked on his 671-page Handwörterbuch der Tibetischen Sprache (1871), which
was likewise copied out by hand for lithographic printing. This was the direct
predecessor of his Tibetan-English Dictionary, published in London in
1881.
A sample
extract from the 1871 Handwörterbuch der
Tibetischen Sprache |
The 1881 English version of the dictionary is Jäschke’s best-known work: every page reflects years of
painstaking research with careful notations as to literary sources and regional
variations.
At the same time
Jäschke worked on revisions of his Tibetan New Testament, and these were eventually published by the
British and Foreign Bible Society in Berlin in 1883 and 1885. The printed version is notable not only for the translation but also for the carefully selected Tibetan
font cast by the Berlin firm Th. Unger (see illustration).
The first page of the Gospel of St John, 1881. |
By the early
1880s Jäschke was already in poor health, and this made the task of correcting
the proofs of the New Testament both slow and laborious. He passed away in
Herrnhut in September 1883. His tombstone in the nearby Moravian graveyard is
marked with a text from his Bible translation, Matthew 25: 23.
John Bray
Select
bibliography
Jäschke’s
works
Jäschke, Heinrich
August. 1871. Handwörterbuch der Tibetischen Sprache. Gnadau:
Unitäts-buchhandlung.
______.1881. A Tibetan-English Dictionary with Special Reference to the
Prevailing Dialects. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
______. 1883. Tibetan
Grammar. London: Trubner & Co.
____. (trans). 1883. Four Gospels. Tibetan. Berlin: British & Foreign Bible Society.
____. (trans). 1885. Acts to Revelation. Tibetan.Berlin: British & Foreign Bible
Society. [Revelation was translated by Jäschke’s pupil and successor, F.A.
Redslob].
Secondary
sources
Bechler, Theodor. 1930. Heinrich August Jäschke, der geniale Sprachforscher
der Mission der Brüdergemeine im westlichen Himalaya. Herrnhuter
Missionsstudien No. 25. Herrnhut: Verlag der Missionsbuchhandlung.
Bray, John. 1983.
“Heinrich August Jaeschke. Pioneer
Tibetan Scholar.” Tibet Journal 8,
No.3, pp. 50-55.
______. 1990. “A History of
Tibetan Bible Translations”. In Wissenschaftsgeschichte und
gegenwärtige Forschungen in Nordwest-Indien, pp. 66-79. Edited by Gudrun
Meier and Lydia Icke-Schwalbe. Dresden: Museum für Völkerkunde. Available on
www.ladakhstudies.org.
______. 1991. “Language,
Tradition and the Tibetan Bible”. Tibet Journal 16, No. 4, pp. 28-58.
Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives.
______. 2008. “Missionaries,
Officials and the Making of the Dictionary
of Bhotanta, or Boutan Language.” Zentralasiatische Studien 37, pp. 33-75.
______. 2015. “A Himalayan Encounter: Lama Lobsang Chospel and Heinrich
August Jäschke”. Tibet Journal 40,
Nos 1 & 2, pp. 151-158.
Forthcoming. “Heinrich August Jäschke
(1817-1883): Translating the Christian scriptures into Tibetan”. Paper
presented at the Seventh International Csoma de Kőrös Symposium on Buddhist
Transcreations in Tibetan Literature and Art, New Delhi, September 2014.
16 Mar 2017
5th ICSD Conference, Rome 2017
Ladies and Gents, please see the following announcement and paper call from our dedicated member and friend, Vladimiro Pelliciardi, convenor of the annual International Conference on Sustainable Development held in Rome. This will be of interest to any of our members undertaking development research in Ladakh.
Dear Friends, on the behalf of the International Steering Committee I am very pleased to announce the 5th International Conference on Sustainable Development, 6-7 September 2017 in Rome.
ICSD 2017 will be an excellent opportunity to present your projects and discuss the latest results in the field of Sustainability Science. The general aim of the conference is to promote international collaboration in Sustainability Science and related disciplines.
In the previous conferences (2014, 2015 and 2016) four papers regarding Ladakh were presented and published or reported on the European Journal of Sustainable Development. Moreover, several other scientists from India were present. Thus the Conference is a good opportunity for other scientists and for researchers from Ladakh to present their works.
The Call for Papers abstract submission regular deadline is 10 March 2017 and late submission deadline (more costly) is 10 June 2017. Please look at the webpage for further details.
The Call for Papers abstract submission regular deadline is 10 March 2017 and late submission deadline (more costly) is 10 June 2017. Please look at the webpage for further details.
http://www.ecsdev.org/index. php/conference
The ICSD 2017 is organized by the European Center of Sustainable Development. It will will be held at the Roma Eventi, Piazza della Pilotta, 4 Rome, from Friday 6 to Saturday 7 September, 2017.
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You can re-post this announcement wherever you like.
All the best,
Vladimiro (IALS member)
26 Jan 2017
Our 2017 Conference venue, in winter
One of our conference secretaries, Rafal Beszterda, has just visited the 18th IALS Conference venue in Bedlewo, Poland. He sent this wintry image of the Bedlewo Palace. The snow should be long gone by early May 2017, but we thought you might like to see the venue in its winter coat. For more conference details visit the IALS conference webpage and the official conference website.
27 Sept 2016
Mountains and Sacred Landscapes Conference Mountains and Sacred Landscapes - UPDATE: CALL FOR PAPERS EXTENSION
Ladies and Gents, here are updated details for the conference advertised back in August:
Conference Sponsors
India China Institute
International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture (ISSRNC)
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University (CLALS)More information about the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University online: www.american.edu/clals/. Interested scholars are invited to follow the Center on Twitter @AU_CLALS and Facebook.
http://www.indiachinainstitute.org/2017conference/
Mountains and Sacred Landscapes
An International Conference of the
International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture
Co-sponsored and hosted by:
India China Institute, The New School
In partnership with:
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, American University
Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, American University
April 20 – 23, 2017
The New School, New York City
The New School, New York City
* Extended Submission Deadline: Oct 10, 2016 5pm EST *
Follow the Conference on Twitter: #MTNSL2017
Featured Speakers Include:
- Ed Bernbaum – Scholar of comparative religions and mythology, Senior Fellow at The Mountain Institute and Award-winning author of Sacred Mountains of the World and The Way to Shambhala
- Ben Orlove – Professor of Anthropology, Senior Research Scientist at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, and Co-director of the Center for Research in Environmental Decisions
- David Rothenberg – Professor of Philosophy and Music and author of Why Birds Sing: A Journey Into the Mystery of Bird Song and Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science and Evolution
Call for Proposals and Papers
The International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture (ISSRNC), in cooperation with the India China Institute (ICI) at The New School, American University’s Center for Latin American and Latino Studies (CLALS) and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) are excited to announce an international conference on the theme of mountains and sacred landscapes.
Since its founding in 2006, the ISSRNC has promoted critical inquiry into the complex relationships between human beings, the religious dimensions of their cultures, and the environments which they inhabit and from which they evolved. This year’s conference will feature a series of special presentations based on recent field research by the India China Institute’s Sacred Himalaya Initiative on the intersections of religion, nature and culture.
The conference seeks to critically explore the ways in which the idea of sacred landscapes is entangled with diverse communities, with particular attention to mountain landscapes. The conference will feature interdisciplinary dialogue about what kinds of meanings shape, and are shaped by, the effects of climate change, mass extinction, human population growth and ecological degradation of mountains, forests, rivers and other sacred landscapes.
As we enter the new geologic epoch that scientists and scholars are referring to as the Anthropocene, diverse global mountain communities have begun to face growing social, economic, political, and ecological challenges. Melting glaciers, shifting agricultural patterns, conflicts over mining and resource extraction, risks to livelihoods, and the consequences of increasingly erratic global climate change pose unknown future challenges to many sacred landscapes, including mountain communities and ecosystems around the world, as well as the human and non-human beings that rely on them.
We invite scholars from all disciplines, including environmental history and environmental studies, science studies, anthropology, philosophy, political science, religious studies and geography, to submit proposals related to sacred landscapes.
Proposals may address any of the following themes:
- Challenges and opportunities for sacred landscapes in the 21st century
- Theoretical and/or religious conceptualizations of place, space, and landscape
- Negotiation of community, climate change, and mountain spirituality
- Traditional/local knowledge and its effects on social and ecological justice
- Ecosystem sustainability and the future of mountain and forest people
- Ecosystem destruction and the fate of the non-human community
- Mountains as diverse ecosystems and sites of religious negotiation
- Manifestations of the sacred in diverse landscapes
- Negotiating environmental challenge through ritual practices
This year’s conference explicitly seeks to disrupt the conventional “three people reading papers” session. We seek innovative and unconventional proposals from all fields for this interdisciplinary conference. We invite proposals for individual papers, entire sessions, round-tables, interactive workshops, conversations, and alternative formats. We are also proposing two experimental TEDx style presentations of 10 minutes with 5-7 presenters.
Submission Guidelines
Monday, October 10th by 5pm EST is the deadline for paper and panel proposals. Submission guidelines, the travel aid application process and details about requesting Visa letters can be found on the ICI website at: www.indiachinainstitute.org/20 17conference/. CFP and conference-related questions and inquiries can be directed to: sacredmountains2017@gmail.com.
Participation Requirements for Presenters
All presenters must be members in good standing of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture and registered for the conference by March 1, 2017. All scholars interested in religion, nature and culture are encouraged to support the Society by joining or renewing at the ISSRNC membership page.
Publications
Presenters and session organizers are encouraged to submit their articles for publication, or their sessions for special issues, to the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture (JSRNC).
Conference Sponsors
India China Institute
Interested scholars are also encouraged to follow the ICI Facebook page, Twitter @india_china and our YouTube channel.
More information about the society and journal online: www.religionandnature.com/soci ety/. Interested scholars are also encouraged to follow theISSRNC Facebook page, Twitter @ISSRNC and Academia.edu.
More information about the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development online: www.icimod.org. Interested scholars are also encouraged to follow the ICIMOD Facebook page, Twitter @icimod and YouTube channel.
Please follow the weblink below for more information.
http://www.indiachinainstitute.org/2017conference/
22 Aug 2016
Mountains and Sacred Landscapes Conference, India and China Institute, April 20 – 23, 2017 The New School, New York City
Some of our members may be interested in attending this forthcoming conference to be hosted by the India and China Institute at the New School, New York City:
For the past three years, the India China
Institute has been undertaking the second phase of a Luce Foundation
supported research project looking at the intersection of religion,
ecology and transboundary social and cultural issues in the Himalayas,
known as the Sacred Landscapes and Sustainable Futures in the Himalaya Initiative
(SHI). This project builds on the past three years of successful
research as part of the Everyday Religion and Sustainable Environments
in the Himalaya (ERSEH) Initiative.
The conference in April of 2017 will
feature presentations from ICI’s core research team who has been working
on this project for the past several years, as well as from our
partners at ICIMOD and their work on the Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative (KSLCDI). You can learn more about both projects on our Sacred Himalaya Initiative page,
including reading several published stories from the field, view
interactive maps from the project area, and learn more about Mount
Kailash and the many challenges and opportunities facing Himalayan
mountain communities.
For more information about the conference and how to submit a paper proposal, please visit the webpage: http://www.indiachinainstitute.org/2017conference/
The paper call remains open until Monday, 5th September.
20 Aug 2016
Watercolour sketches of Ladakh, 1886
During the period of British rule in India, army officers commonly went on extended treks to Ladakh during their leaves. Some took their cameras. Others carried sketchbooks. Now a Canadian bookshop is selling a book containing watercolours of Ladakh drawn by a British army officer, Major C.B. Templer, in 1886.
The one shown here depicts a 'Tartar' nomadic encampment, presumably in Rupshu. Another shows the palace and town of Leh, looking north towards the Khardong la.
You can find out more by looking at the bookshop's website: http://www.wayfarersbookshop.com/show_details.php?txtBOOK=1521
John Bray
The British Library's Wise Drawings
Here is a link to a blog on the British Library website by Diana Lange, who contributed to the 2013 IALS conference in Heidelberg:
http://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2016/07/the-wise-collection-acquiring-knowledge-on-tibet-in-the-late-1850s.html
As you can read on the blog, Diana has been working on the 'Wise Drawings', a set of 'picture maps' commissioned by a British official in the mid-19th century. Diana has discovered the name of the official: a Major William Edward Hay, who was Assistant Commissioner in Kulu. However, we do not yet now the name of the monk who actually drew the images.
If you scroll down to the bottom of the Diana's article, you will see that you can now examine the drawings online. The image shown here (complete with British Library 'water mark') shows the Leh palace and bazaar. There is another showing parts of Zangskar, and still others showing the route between Ladakh and Lhasa.
John Bray
http://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2016/07/the-wise-collection-acquiring-knowledge-on-tibet-in-the-late-1850s.html
As you can read on the blog, Diana has been working on the 'Wise Drawings', a set of 'picture maps' commissioned by a British official in the mid-19th century. Diana has discovered the name of the official: a Major William Edward Hay, who was Assistant Commissioner in Kulu. However, we do not yet now the name of the monk who actually drew the images.
If you scroll down to the bottom of the Diana's article, you will see that you can now examine the drawings online. The image shown here (complete with British Library 'water mark') shows the Leh palace and bazaar. There is another showing parts of Zangskar, and still others showing the route between Ladakh and Lhasa.
John Bray
20 Jul 2016
Art, Architecture and Petroglyphs in Ladakh
I am
delighted to report the publication of two new books on Ladakh. The first is Visible Heritage. Essays on the Art and
Architecture of Greater Ladakh, edited by Rob Linrothe and Heinrich Pöll
and published by Studio Orientalia.
This contains ten papers from the 16th
conference of the IALS, held in Heidelberg (Germany) in April 2013. The
subjects range from temple architecture to fortifications, vernacular
architecture and the beautiful set of mid-19th century pictorial
maps known as the Wise Collection.
For further details on the contents and how
to order the book, please see the publisher’s website:
The second book is Rob Linrothe’s Seeing into Stone. Pre-Buddhist Petroglyphs
and Zangskar’s Early Inhabitants, also published by Studio Orientalia. For further details please see:http://www.studioorientalia.com/index.php?p=bookdetails&String=9788192450285
Both publications are lavishly illustrated, true
labours of love by the authors, editors and publisher.
John Bray
15 Jul 2016
Call for Papers (Deadline for abstract submission: THursday, 15th September 2016)
Current Western Himalayan Research
18th Colloquium of the International Association for Ladakh Studies (IALS) Bedlewo, Poland, 2nd-6th May 2017
The 18th Conference of the International Association for Ladakh Studies (IALS) will be jointly organized by the Board of Polish Academy of Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin, and the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. It will be held at the Bedlewo Conference Centre near Poznan, Poland from Tuesday, 2nd to Saturday, 6th May 2017.
The conference theme will focus broadly on Current Western Himalayan Research with the aim of gathering together senior and independent researchers, postgraduate students, and practitioners from across all academic disciplines. Whilst precedence is given to Ladakh-oriented research, we wish also to encourage studies that focus upon the wider Himalayan belt, including the neighboring high-altitude areas of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, and Pakistan. The conference will have an interdisciplinary character as is the tradition and trademark of IALS colloquia.
We are now accepting abstracts of up to 400 words. If you wish to apply, please download and complete the conference application form and submit to the following email address: Ials2017bedlewo@gmail.com
Proposed sessions’ structure:
We strongly encourage participants from various scientific disciplines to submit an abstract in the following sessions:
- Cultural and social change
- Religious transformations
- Economic transformation in rural areas
- Heritage, conservation and restoration
- New data in Himalayan studies
- Climate change: resilience and adaptation
- Development practices
- Health and well being
- Historical issues
In addition, we invite suggestions and proposals for additional panel sessions, although please inform us swiftly of any intention, indicating with whom you would like to cooperate or convene such a panel.
Documentary films
We are also issuing a call for good documentary films for those with visual research related to the region and themes of the conference. The process for proposal is the same as for paper abstracts. However, please state the format you would like to present the documentary footage.
All paper proposals will be subject to review by the conference committee before final acceptance. The most important consideration is that papers must represent the results of original research, and not simply a restatement of existing knowledge based on the work of well-known authors.
For details including conference fees, terms and deadlines and travel grants, please download and refer to the full Call for Papers.
The conference theme will focus broadly on Current Western Himalayan Research with the aim of gathering together senior and independent researchers, postgraduate students, and practitioners from across all academic disciplines. Whilst precedence is given to Ladakh-oriented research, we wish also to encourage studies that focus upon the wider Himalayan belt, including the neighboring high-altitude areas of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, and Pakistan. The conference will have an interdisciplinary character as is the tradition and trademark of IALS colloquia.
We are now accepting abstracts of up to 400 words. If you wish to apply, please download and complete the conference application form and submit to the following email address: Ials2017bedlewo@gmail.com
Proposed sessions’ structure:
We strongly encourage participants from various scientific disciplines to submit an abstract in the following sessions:
- Cultural and social change
- Religious transformations
- Economic transformation in rural areas
- Heritage, conservation and restoration
- New data in Himalayan studies
- Climate change: resilience and adaptation
- Development practices
- Health and well being
- Historical issues
In addition, we invite suggestions and proposals for additional panel sessions, although please inform us swiftly of any intention, indicating with whom you would like to cooperate or convene such a panel.
Documentary films
We are also issuing a call for good documentary films for those with visual research related to the region and themes of the conference. The process for proposal is the same as for paper abstracts. However, please state the format you would like to present the documentary footage.
All paper proposals will be subject to review by the conference committee before final acceptance. The most important consideration is that papers must represent the results of original research, and not simply a restatement of existing knowledge based on the work of well-known authors.
For details including conference fees, terms and deadlines and travel grants, please download and refer to the full Call for Papers.
Please direct all enquiries to the Conference Secretaries:
Rafal Beszterda, Poland
Email: rbeszterda@gmail.com; telephone: +48 61 810 46 22; mobile: +48 601 669 702
Diana Lange, Germany
Email: diana.lange@hu-berlin.de; telephone: +49 30 20 93 66 065; mobile: +49 171 75 25 498
Further conference details will be posted here and at the http://www.etnologia.umk.pl/ials2017 as they are finalised.
Rafal Beszterda, Poland
Email: rbeszterda@gmail.com; telephone: +48 61 810 46 22; mobile: +48 601 669 702
Diana Lange, Germany
Email: diana.lange@hu-berlin.de; telephone: +49 30 20 93 66 065; mobile: +49 171 75 25 498
Further conference details will be posted here and at the http://www.etnologia.umk.pl/ials2017 as they are finalised.
30 Jun 2016
Call for papers for Ladakh Studies Journal
Jullay everyone,
~ Call for paper submission in Ladakh Studies journal (with an ISSN number) on any topic related to/on Ladakh. Those interested please feel free to mail/inquire at : journal@ladakhstudies.org or visit the publication page :
http://www.ladakhstudies.org/publications/ladakhstudies.html ~
http://www.ladakhstudies.org/publications/ladakhstudies.html ~
P.S: The back issues of downloadable Ladakh Studies Journal are also available for use here:
http://www.ladakhstudies.org/downloads/ladakhstudiesbackissues.html
25 May 2016
18th Conference of
the International Association for Ladakh Studies (IALS), Bedlewo near Poznan,
Poland, 2nd – 6th May 2017
The
18th Conference of the International Association for Ladakh Studies (IALS) will
be jointly organized by the Board of Polish Academy of Sciences, Humboldt
University, and the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. It will be
held at the Bedlewo Conference Centre near Poznan, Poland from Tuesday, 2nd to
Saturday 6th May 2017.
The
conference theme will focus broadly on Current Western Himalayan Research with
the aim of gathering together senior and independent researchers, postgraduate
students, and practitioners from across all academic disciplines. Whilst
emphasis will be placed upon Ladakh-oriented research, we wish also to
encourage research focusing upon the wider Himalayan belt to include the
neighbouring high-altitude areas of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, and
Uttarakhand. The conference will have a multidisciplinary character as is the
tradition and trademark of IALS colloquia. The Call for Papers will be open
from August until mid-November, and decisions will be made by mid-January.
The
proposed conference fee will include accommodation, all meals and refreshments,
and an excursion to the nearby palace and gardens. Bedlewo Conference Centre is
equipped with all modern facilities: single, double and triple rooms with
private baths, and we even offer a sauna, small gym, billiards and table tennis
for enthusiasts of evening sports. Maybe for the first time we can make some
sporting competitions among Himalayan researchers!
We
look forward to welcoming you next May.
Conference
Secretaries
Rafal Beszterda,
Poland
Email:
rbeszterda@gmail.com; telephone: +48 61 810 46 22; mobile: +48 601 669 702
Diana Lange, Germany
Email:
diana.lange@hu-berlin.de; telephone: +49 30 20 93 66 065; fax: +49 30 20 93 66
084
For
further information and the latest updates, please visit the International
Association for Ladakh Studies Webpage: http://www.ladakhstudies.org/.
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